Sold for: $52,250

PROVENANCE
DeVooght Galleries Ltd., Vancouver
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Calgary

LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduced front cover and page 57
Lora S. Urbanelli, The Grosvenor School: British Linocuts Between the Wars, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1988, reproduced page 44
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduced page 115, catalogue #SA 32
Clifford S. Ackley, editor, Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914 - 1939, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008, reproduced page 127
Gordon Samuel, The Cutting Edge of Modernity, Osborne Samuel, 2013, reproduced page 7
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue, Osborne Samuel Gallery, 2015, reproduced page 79

EXHIBITED
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews, 1982, same image, catalogue #32

Sybil Andrews was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, and in 1922, went to London to study art at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. Three years later, at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, she met Claude Flight, who taught her to print using linoleum blocks. Andrews produced an extraordinary body of work, with themes that encompassed the dynamism of the modern age through her depiction of people, animals and machines in motion. Sport was a subject that fascinated Andrews and the Grosvenor School artists, and it was an ideal vehicle for Andrews to convey her modernist aesthetic. In this remarkable print, Andrews expressed the experience of speed that fascinated the modern world in the 1930s. Its importance is reflected in the fact that this work was chosen for the front cover of Peter White’s 1982 catalogue raisonné of her linocuts, produced by the Glenbow Museum. Andrews is recognized internationally for her linocuts, and Racing is one of her most sought-after prints. An impression of Racing is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Stephen Coppel notes: from an edition 60 plus 4 early TPs titled The Race and 3 later TPs. Early impressions on buff oriental laid tissue; later printings on thickish oriental paper. This is a fine impression on thickish oriental paper.

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